TY  - JOUR
TI  - Two Notions of Humanity and the Judgment Argument for Human Rights
AU  - Ferrara, Alessandro
PY  - 2003
PB  - SAGE Publications
LA  - eng
AB  - This essay is about the difficulties connected with grounding human rights philosophically in a multicultural context. These difficulties are argued to derive from the tension between our aspiration to universal validity and our shared belief in the constitutive role of life-forms, traditions, cultures, and vocabularies vis-à-vis our conceptions of justice. Rawls's and Habermas's approaches to the justification of human rights are then briefly reconstructed and assessed. A symmetrical distribution of strong and weak points is argued to obtain. In the light of this reconstruction, the author explores the potential of his judgment view of justice for providing a justification of the universality of human rights not vulnerable to the difficulties of the other examined approaches.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591703031003003
DO  - 10.1177/0090591703031003003
T2  - Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy
VL  - 31
IS  - 3
SN  - 1552-7476
SN  - 0090-5917
SP  - 392-420
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/sw-6a8c865d5e5bc4de
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -